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Billy Barr has braved the fourth season deep in the Rocky Mountains for more than 50 years, amassing tons of climate data.

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Bolted into a concrete slab in a grassy field in Colesville, a 30-foot-tall metal tower with devices to measure weather ...

The story so far: New age biotechnologies endow powers to understand biology better and, consequently, harness biological agents to target humans. Thus, biosecurity measures need to be upgraded.

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